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Ellise Shafer / Variety: Memo: the BBC says it will cut 550 jobs including in its news and content divisions by the start of FY 2027-2028 in the first phase of a plan to save $670M -
Jake Kanter / Deadline: Email: BBC says commissioning spend will be reduced by £80M by March 2028 and TV development budget will be slashed by 15% annually -
Thomas Escritt / Bloomberg: Viktor Orban's media empire collapses two months after his election defeat; about 400 journalists at Mediaworks outlets have been given notices of termination -
The Colorado Sun: The owner of The Denver Post agreed to pay the city of Denver $13.5M under a settlement to cover overdue rent for the news outlet's former building -
Muvija M / Reuters: The UK CMA orders Google to provide greater transparency on how its search rankings work and to let users transfer their search data to authorized third parties -
Zoe Engels / Mediaite: Kara Swisher says she'll leave CNN as soon as she can if the Ellisons acquire WBD, the network's parent company; she's under contract until the end of 2026 -
Miles Klee / Wired: Freedom of the Press Foundation says Paramount refused to air an ad criticizing Paramount's merger with WBD during the stream of the UFC White House event -
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Mastodon adds email newsletters, letting writers send their posts directly to subscribers' inboxes, even to readers without a Mastodon account -
Angelique Chrisafis / The Guardian: Reporters Without Borders and French journalists unions complain that billionaire Bernard Arnault has bought up almost all the country's business media outlets -
Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal: A profile of Silk White, whose movies and TV shows, which have grossed ~$2M in the year to February, are distributed by Filmhub to online platforms like Tubi -
Mark Sweney / The Guardian: Analysts: UK social media ban is likely to cause £1.3B in digital ad cuts in 2027, with streaming services poised to benefit as advertisers seek to reach teens -
Rebuild Local News: The 2026 Local Journalist Index shows a persistent shortage of local journalists; states with fewer local journalists face higher municipal borrowing costs
